Ancient Quote by Alexander Hamilton

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is…

— Winston Churchill

Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect.

— David Remnick

It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is…

— Alexander Fraser Tytler

“Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is…

— Winston S. Churchill

Democracy, though slowly attained and never by revolutionary jumps, is the best government on earth when it tries to make all its citizens aristocrats.…

— Peter Viereck

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash,…

— Noah Webster

A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government in person,…

— James Madison

No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them,…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

— John Winthrop

Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government

— Winston Churchill

“Democracy, indeed, has a fair-appearing name and conveys the impression of bringing equal rights to all through equal laws, but its results are seen…

— Cassius Dio

“Democracy, indeed, has a fair-appearing name . . . Monarchy . . . has an unpleasant sound, but is a most practical form of government to live under.…

— Adrian Goldsworthy